The Dry Years (Source: Mike Benson)

In their book, Why Me?, Pesach Krauss and Morrie Goldfisher tell a story about two men who cut down an aged hardwood. The woodcutter’s observations about the inner rings within the old tree are compelling: …I sometimes tell patients the parable about the two wood choppers who had taken down a tree that was over one hundred years old. Looking at the growth rings to determine the tree’s age, the younger man noticed that there were five very nar... (read post)

A New Start For A New Year …. Looking Ahead (Source: Barbara Hyland)

Yes….I think perhaps I will do better this time around. I have learned from my past mistakes and surely I won’t repeat the same ones again! Right? I don’t want to repeat my failures. But then again, without failures how would I learn? God lets us trip on our own feet. We only learn when we fall. The problem of course, is not the falling. It’s picking ourselves up, taking the worse of failures and making them the stories of our life. God teach... (read post)